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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

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Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. Innovation by Any Other Name.

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Corporate Banks Need Radical Tech Shift, Say Analysts

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And while partnerships, collaboration and internal product development have helped banks to improve their reputations for innovation among their corporate clients, a new report from Boston Consulting Group says it’s not enough. Baumgärtner also coauthored the report. “The only question is which banks will be among them.”

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The End Of The Uber Experience?

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Its abundance in payments and commerce is what inspires innovators to challenge a friction-filled status quo and create something new. But none rose to the level of the seriously friction-filled experiences that might motivate a would-be innovator to quit her day job and give up her life to solve for it.

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Why One Startup Is Desperately Seeking Regulation

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These days, however, Uber is spending its time, increasingly, in court and has even managed to allow things to break down completely in Austin such that it doesn’t operate there anymore. Said charter will mean that Circle will face tighter scrutiny but great ease operating on a national scale. Kennedy School of Government.

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The Ever-Widening, Eye-Opening OmniReadi Gap

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To compile the index, researchers in Boston; Chicago; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Seattle shopped merchants across three channels: web, app, and in-store. We also offer a solution and process that this is frictionless to their day-to-day operations so our orders are seamless and no different than any other customer.” .

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In Favor Of Delivery: The Growing Omnichannel Store-To-Door Ecosystem

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These programs — which include apps like GrubHub, Foodler, Favor, Seamless and DoorDash – operate independently of merchants, acting as middlemen between in-home consumers and various eateries. According to Duncan, Favor fields inquiries surrounding both its own operations and mishaps that are the restaurants’ responsibilities.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Uber, Bitcoin, Botnets, SWIFT – And The Wells Wallets

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The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. SWIFT insists that they, as the messaging system, weren’t breached, but rather someone(s) very, very clever and with an uncanny understanding of how the system operates got hold of bank credentials and access to the SWIFT network and directed money to all of the wrong places, including China.

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